KSDE denies lowering standards despite implausible proficiency gains - The Sentinel

KSDE denies lowering standards despite implausible proficiency gains - The Sentinel

Kansas Department of Education (KSDE) staff put on a master class of political spin and deception at yesterday’s meeting of the State Board of Education. Board members were given the 2025 state assessment results based on a new test and cut scores to determine achievement levels, and were told to ignore conflicting historical results and accept the new numbers as gospel. For example, the percentage of 8th-grade reading proficiency more than doub…